The slaughter of the Herero was genocide, says Berlin | Europe (2021)
The whip was not the only device of control slaveholders used: they were masters of manipulation too "As elsewhere in the Americas, the right of... (2020)
New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. (2019)
Right from the founding of modern Ghana Kwame Nkrumah preached pan-Africanism that transcended the shores of Africa. (2018)
ALEXANDRA LORAS has lived in eight countries and visited 50-odd more. In most, any racism she might have experienced because of her black skin was ... (2017)
Historian Matthew Pinsker presents a quick rundown of the story of Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom, leading to one of the Supreme Cour... (2018)
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 1857, in which the court held that African Americans could not be citizens of t... (2018)
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis." The gruesome disease killed thousands... (2018)